Category: Canada

Socialist Alternative interviewed Amanda Where do you work, and what is your job there?  I work for a pharmacy, as a Community Mental Health Worker, in a medication monitoring program. My job involves going around to a list of patients in the community, who are certified under the BC Mental Health Act, to give them […]

The COVID-19 crisis has shown a remarkable ability to lay bare any issues, inadequacies, and lacks in our provincial health care system. In order to better understand exactly how the pandemic is straining our health care system and revealing its flaws, I talked to Blake, a health care worker, about how his job has changed […]

For most of my adult life, I have been living paycheque to paycheque working at minimum wage jobs. Most recently, I was employed at a boutique soap store (which continues to stay open as it falls under the designation of an “essential service”). A non-unionized workplace, roughly 85% of its employees have been laid off […]

On January 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that governments should be preparing immediately and taking precautions due to the virus. On February 24, the increasing number of cases outside China spurred the WHO to warn that the virus could become a global pandemic, and that  all countries should prepare. On 27 February, the […]

The right-wing Toronto Sun has never been afraid to foment division among workers, even when division didn’t exist. In the time of coronavirus, this hasn’t changed. Sun columnist Brian Lilley, on March 30 launched an attack on public sector workers in Service Canada offices. He wrote: “I know there are many good civil servants at […]